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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No, I meant an accessory as in:

An accessory is a person who assists, but does not actually participate, in the commission of a crime.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Of course we cannot. I agree with you that nobody is born evil or a criminal (even psychopaths are not guaranteed to become serial killers).

By all means, if not for propaganda, we would live in a very different world.

But the unfortunate fact is that they did consume enough of that propaganda to do nothing, or worse, follow the orders.

Yes, they are not criminals by nature, but what they do is crime or at least they are an accessory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (4 children)

the answer is - it doesn't matter. the biggest learning from the nazi germany was that you don't need the entire population of a country to be homicidal psychopaths. all you need is a small group of those psychopaths, control or media, propaganda and you get a perfectly functioning system where normal everyday folks go to their normal everyday jobs.

just those jobs are in gestapo. or in maintenance of gas chambers. or making food for the equally confused soldiers.

of course, we should avoid civilian casualties as much as we can (but apparently russian army is not required) but the system needs to be stopped.

russia has cancer. chemoterapy is not a pleasant procedure that affects both ill and healthy cells. the alternative is, unfortunately, to allow that cancer to spread to the entire planet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I believe the trick to avoid getting encircled is withdrawing before one gets encircled

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ukraine doesn't need that land. russia cannot afford not defending that land. The moment it gets too "expensive" for Ukraine, they withdraw. But that will only happen after russia invests heavily into actually recovering their territory.

It's like in chess when a knight is attacking two pieces at the same time. The one on defense can only choose a smaller loss.

Which is a win for Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Don't tell anyone, but I suspect it's a pc with a GPU. Maybe even a hard drive. Wild!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

These are fantastic artillery numbers. Iirc, russia is an artillery-first military - e.g. shoot a lot or artillery, pause and check with soldiers, repeat as needed.

So the fewer of those they have, the more they rely on guided bombs (which require planes, which are few, wear off and they are steadily losing too) and meat assaults.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

thank you. came to the comments to say exactly this.

cloud could be cheap, but it's a lot of work, or at least attention. people get disappointed with the costs, paradoxically, because cloud is easy and, as you put, versatile. and often between any two options allowing to do the same thing, the easier one will be more expensive.

the biggest irony of the cloud is that many companies it seems, just like different species evolved into crabs, discover that all they need is a couple of own servers in a managed hosting environment, a CDN and outlook.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They actually do. 70% of russians support the war.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Likely both as they are long past exhausting their active stock

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GT9cdslXIAAagH5?format=jpg&name=900x900

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Lol. That was my reaction too. "Oh, shit, it's a video - close".

My issue with videos is that they are too slow for relaying information. I'll be ok with it if there would be a two-sentence summary, after reading which I could decide if I want to watch it.

I suspect so that video says it's that phone calls don't relay the body language and that makes it more difficult to understand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Ceiling, duh.

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